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Friday 5 September 2008

Ultimate Manilow

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 3 -- Following a three-year sold out run
at the Las Vegas Hilton, Barry Manilow is reversive with "ULTIMATE MANILOW:
The Hits". With more than 40 Top Forty Hit Songs, "ULTIMATE MANILOW: The
Hits" at the Las Vegas Hilton is packed with Manilow's hits spanning his
salient career. With worldwide sales of more than 75 million records,
the success of Barry Manilow is a benchmark in popular music.

Barry Manilow and the Hilton Las Vegas re-enlisted SkyTag, the world's
leader in supergraphic tallwalls, building wraps, and spectaculars, to do
it once again, in amazing fashion with the largest hand painted mural in Las
Vegas.

For years SkyTag has teamed up with the charles Herbert Best creative minds to
construct these telling and stunning visual reasoned bites that are seen,
talked about, and heard around the world.

Website: http://www.skytag.net

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Tuesday 26 August 2008

The Hidden �Weekend Arts�

Photos: Everett Bogue

With its lordly presentation and capacious page count, the New York Times' "Weekend Arts" section is designed for big newspaper experiences. No paper in the city delivers so many versions of awesome under one roof: walking tours of the city, floor-to-ceiling movie reviews, French painters in retrospect, with a Will Shortz crossword and a Kakutani review thrown in.

And yet, surely no New York newspaper section packs such a wealth of eye-catching minutiae. In such vivid but peripheral images � like the pull quote or shapely young starlet on E1 � we sense the editors' intimacy with their subjects, and we feel our own connection to the paper itself. How close we can physically get to such details can, of course, be limited by how close we can hold the newspaper to our face. And then there�s the matter of concentration: 30 pages of arts coverage � even in the news-barren dog days of August � tends to overwhelm our attention.

This is where the camera becomes an invaluable tool, a second set of eyes, sharp-focused and guiding us to what we might otherwise not see. Everett Bogue, Vulture's photo editor, recently embarked on a survey in close-up of today's "Weekend Arts" section and revealed a second newspaper hidden in plain sight within the first: a treasury of particulars. In these late summer weeks we invite you to follow him on his gallery travels and offer a challenge: to find the larger works from which Mr. Bogue singled out these fragments. In the process you�re likely to learn what summer-desperate newspaper editors have always known: any idea, no matter how goofy, can be stretched into a popular recurring feature. Small isn�t small after all.

Answer key:

1. Detail of Russian gymnast's butt, "Four Russian Gymnasts Definitely Not in Beijing," page E1

2. Detail of beach exposure, "Too Darn Hot? Hop the 'Sea' Train," page E30

3. Evian bottle strategically placed 'tween Javier Bardem's legs, limited review of Vicky Christina Barcelona, page E1

4. Clues for 24- and 25-Down, New York Times daily crossword puzzle puzzle, page E2

5. Final two lines of Nathan Lee's Star Wars: The Clone Wars review, sir Frederick Handley Page E9

6. Michiko Kakutani's byline, "Literary Soul Mates or Authors Who Were Polar Opposites?," page E29

7. Detail of a defaced poster from verandah Broadway 1602's current show, "The Rictus Grin," review on page E27

8. Pissing dog, "The Hidden Collection," page E25

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Saturday 16 August 2008

Cowell is looking for the next Winehouse

'X Factor' judge Simon Cowell has said that he is hoping to find mortal as good as Amy Winehouse through the reality show this year.

Cowell said: "I want soul who is going to represent this country all over the world for the following 10, 20 years - that's what I'm looking for for.

"I want somebody wHO is different and unique and I want to find individual as effective as Amy Winehouse - I'd passion to do that."

Speaking close to new judge Cheryl Cole, he aforesaid that she is "a little champion" and is there to bring honestness to the panel.

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Thursday 7 August 2008

Rachael Ray going to the dogs with new pet food

In the latest enlargement of her culinary empire, celebrity chef Rachael Ray has launched a charity-driven line of dog foods based on recipes she has created for her pit